Blow-up criteria below scaling for defocusing energy-supercritical NLS and quantitative global scattering bounds

Abstract

We establish quantitative blow-up criteria below the scaling threshold for radially symmetric solutions to the defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation with nonlinearity $|u|^6u$. This provides to our knowledge the first generic results distinguishing potential blow-up solutions of the defocusing equation from many of the known examples of blow-up in the focusing case. Our main tool is a quantitative version of a result showing that uniform bounds on $L^2$-based critical Sobolev norms imply scattering estimates. As another application of our techniques, we establish a variant which allows for slow growth in the critical norm. We show that if the critical Sobolev norm on compact time intervals is controlled by a slowly growing quantity depending on the Stricharz norm, then the solution can be extended globally in time, with a corresponding scattering estimate.